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- 3601: Great Expectations vs. Oliver Twist
- ... is a very curious young boy. He is a "child of intense and yearning fancy."10 Yet, Oliver is well spoken. Even while his life was in danger while in the hands of Fagin and Bill Sikes, two conniving pickpockets, he refused to participate in the stealing which he so greatly opposed. All Oliver really longed for was to escape from harsh living conditions and evil surroundings which he had grown ...
- 3602: Canterbury Tales: Chaunticleer; Behind the Rooster
- ... conversations. His physical appearance is also described with such beautiful passion that it makes us think Chaunticleer is heaven on earth. His comb was redder than fine coral, and crenellated like a castle wall; his bill was black and shone like jet; his legs and toes were like azure; his nails whiter than lily; and his color like the burnished gold. Chaucer describes Chaunticleer as the quintessential Cock, so perfect that ...
- 3603: A Farewell to Arms: Style
- ... all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations of lefts and rights coming at us without pause. Take the following passage: We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war. We had another ...
- 3604: Accordion Crimes: Dismal Reality Checks
- ... end up pitching it out the window anyway, and the accordion is then found by some kids who pull out one of the thousand dollar bills, are tricked into thinking it is a one dollar bill by the old lady at the soda/gas stand, and buy a few sodas with it. The Accordion Crimes was a fantastic book and I enjoyed reading it immensely because of the detail and amount ...
- 3605: Battle Royal
- ... the view of most conformist black Americans. The only way for a black person to excel at that time was to conform to the white society. Any rebels that tried to stand up for their rights were mostly killed by anti-black groups such as the KKK. There was one symbol in the story that stood out especially in my mind and that was the stripper. She was a tall blonde ...
- 3606: The Bean Trees: Symbols and Hidden Meanings
- ... Indian and have the baby full Indian. This might have been done to try and make it seem like there was a type of natural connection between them to begin with. "I found my head rights, Mama. They're coming with me." The name that the baby was giving also seemed to have meaning. Taylor says she was called Turtle because of her tight grip, but she also has another characteristic ...
- 3607: The Scarlet Letter: Summary
- ... democracy than it is a polemic against adultery. The materials it's made of provide a full-scale representation of the dynamics of liberal democracy, civic and individualist principles entwined, legal obligations interlocked with personal rights. Entwined, interlocked: The Scarlet Letter has a double plot. It is a love-story narrated in the context of historical continuity, and vice-versa.
- 3608: Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
- ... other characters, such as between Offred and Moira. There also are the images of past life that Offred creates. These contrast to the new institution of Gilead. Examples of the contrast are the women's rights rallies. Offred would attend with her mother and also Offred's smoking habit. Offred's memories are characterized with a sense of longing and contrast with Offred's calm tone throughout the story. Atwood chose ...
- 3609: Summary of Terkel's My American Century
- ... a well respected man in his community who is doing what he didn't always know to be the right thing. He has helped many people to get along, and form unions to protect their rights. More importantly, he was personally going out on a limb and against the tides for what he realized was the better human action, and that in itself is a tremendous feat for any man.
- 3610: Lord Of The Flies: Comparison of Movie and Book
- ... was a very shy boy who no one really knew. He kept his distance from everyone. Later in the book we find out that his name is Roger. Then all of their other names were Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry, Samneric and Simon. In the film the boys build an elaborate shelter that is almost prepostorous to build if you look at it carefully. Althogh, it is very helpful for the boys ...
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